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The battle for legal contraception challenged key tenets of Irish identity: Catholicism, large families, traditional gender roles, and sexual puritanism. It is a story of gender, religion, social change, and failing efforts to reaffirm Irish moral exceptionalism.

Mythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petit's 'Beast'. These spirits of the wild haunt the Camargue of Provence, the limestone Causses and gorges of the Languedoc, Indian tiger forests, the Amazon rainforest, and her home by Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Some of these remote ...

In 2017, Tina Satchwell vanished from her quiet Cork home. Her husband Richard claimed that she had taken their savings and left of her own accord. But as time passed and questions mounted, suspicion grew. Why did her husband wait four days before reporting her missing? And would Tina have left b...

The world-famous Kylemore Abbey, dramatically located in a magnificent former castle on the shores of Kylemore Lough in Connemara, has been home to a branch of Benedictine nuns that fled Belgium during World War I. Bombed out of Ypres, where they had been based for hundreds of years, the nuns wer...

The Old English epic poem 'Beowulf' has an established reputation as a canonical text. And yet the original poem has remained inaccessible to all but experienced scholars of Old English. This book presents the poem to readers who want to know what makes it such a remarkable work of art, and why i...

Following the success of 'Ireland's Garden Birds', Jim Wilson and Mark Carmody expand their horizon. An important tool of a birdwatcher is a good identification guide. Most cover the birds of Europe and few deal exclusively with Ireland. This photographic identification guide to the birds of Irel...

This is a work of reflection on the states of mind and culture during the author’s lifetime up to now, and a meditation on his personal experiences in Dublin and elsewhere. Despite the vicissitudes of outrageous fortune, and visitations of mysterious and sometimes distressing psychic phenomena, d...

In New Orleans gods meddle and magic will betray you, but this time justice will reign. Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greatest magical massacre in its history. In the days that followed, a throne was stolen from a queen. On the anniver...

An ordinary day. An ordinary street. A gruesome delivery waiting on the doorstep that's going to set off an spine-chilling chain of events.

From creative craftswomen to singing sensations, poets to sporting champions, Marian Broderick is back to explore the histories of remarkable Irish women in history. These women made a difference to the world in a variety of ways and paved the way for women today.